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Tango & Cash (1989)

★ 6.5 · 2,107 ratings on TMDB

Two of L.A.'s top rival cops are going to have to work together… Even if it kills them.

Tango & Cash poster★ 6.5

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.

DirectorAndrei Konchalovsky
CastBrion James, Jack Palance, James Hong, Kurt Russell, Marc Alaimo, Michael J. Pollard
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Tango & Cash keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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